
This year’s activities will focus on folk arts, especially egg art. Once again there will be the fun-filled children’s activities room where children can experience the Rusyn culture through storytelling, and making folk craft projects such as decorated eggs, bookmarks, decorating cookies, coloring sheets, and more. Members of the CarpathoRusyn Society will also be on hand to answer questions about genealogy as well as having a Rusyn Marketplace with books, CDs, DVDs and folk art items available. There will be videos of Carpatho-Rusyn culture and customs, and iconography. At 4 p.m., a speaking and/or video presentation by John will focus on the current status of Rusyns in America and in the Rusyn homeland. which will focus on RusynĬustoms and culture. there will be a speaking and/or video presentation by John Righetti, formerly of Monessen, Pa.

Information on various topics such as Carpatho-Rusyn family customs, both secular and religious, genealogy and tracing cultural roots, and recent trips to the Carpathian homeland will be available. with their lively and energetic songs and dances. Slavjane Folk Ensemble dancers and musicians from Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church, McKees Rocks, Pa., A folk musical group will perform folk, czardas, polka music at 12:30 and 4 p.m. There will be ongoing entertainment which includes music, folk dancing and singing, demonstrations, videos, displays and presentations. Saturday, October 26 will include a blessing for the event and festival workers. The Carpatho-Rusyn Celebration will be a blending of spiritual and cultural traditions of the Rusyn people. There will also be a variety of baked goods including kolachi (apricot, nut, poppyseed, and cottage cheese rolls), pagach, breads, cookies, candy, and much more. Mouthwatering foods such as pirohi, holubki, halushki, kolbasi and sauerkraut, nalesniki (potato pancakes), soup and more. The day will highlight various aspects of CarpathoRusyn culture. These immigrants brought their traditions with them and maintained them, particularly those in their church life, which was of utmost importance to them. The CarpathoRusyns, though a Slavic group, have distinct differences in language, customs, music,ĭance, fold crafts, and foods. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church. It is immigrants from the Carpathian-Rus’, who came to the United States in the early 1900s, settled in this area, worked in the mills and mines, and started several churches, one being St. In no country do the Carpatho-Rusyns have an administratively distinct territory. Aside from these countries, there are smaller groups of Rusyns in Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and the Czech Republic.

Their homeland, known as “Carpathian-Rus,” is situated at the crossroads where the borders of Slovakia, Ukraine,Īnd Poland meet. The day will feature the heritage of the CarpathoRusyns who come from the very heart of Europe, along the northern and southern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains. John the Baptist, 201 East Main St., Uniontown, Pa. The 38th Annual CarpathoRusyn Celebration will take place noon-6 p.m. Photos from last year’s Carpatho-Rusyn Celebration at St.
